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August 2012…As a part of ‘Sharing experience’ series in a newsletter by Dr. Alok Bharadwaj,
SeniorVice President,Canon South& South East Asia @ Singapore HQ
In the last issue, I talked about very important concept in personal effectiveness. I referred to that
as ‘casting yourself in the movie frame’ which is an important step towards taking complete
ownership & making a difference. This time I want to talk about another approach towards
enhancing personal effectiveness. I will refer to this one as the ‘Passion of life’. We all have limited
lifespan for any defined purpose in life. Our effective lifespan for creating such value in life is about
30-35 years & each year has 300 effective working days during which we can effectively contribute.
That makes it a total of about 10,000 days. Each one of us in our natural life span would have 10,000
working days to contribute. Nowimagine the outcome if all of these days are full of passion. This will
build an inventory of 10,000 passion days. This is an important part of enhancing effectiveness. The
challenge is how do we make every single day as passionate as ever with same amount of energy,
with the same amount of excitement & same amount of interest levels. Isn’t it like getting some
injection a day? Almost like taking a capsule. We can call it Passioninjection. Some of us do have this
ability to create or inject ourselves with this passion & when we do this, then our 10,000 days
become effective & if we don’t then some few days are reduced from the inventory of 10,000 days.
Essentially to understand how to create Passion, it is important to understand what kills Passion. If
we understandwhatkillsPassion, itiseasyto eliminate the causeswhatkillspassion.
Anxiety, uncertainty, non –achievement & status quo kills passion. This accentuates lack of
influence, helplessness, lack of progress and builds stress making ‘Passion’, the immediate casualty.
So now let’s look at what are the things that enhance our ability to make every single day a Passion
Day. I call them3’C of Passion - Clarity,Capabilities& Change.
Let’s understand each one of them. Clarity is that attribute which make our views clear. The views
are not only the ‘sight’ of our eyes but also the ‘in-sight’ of our mind which means clarity of
thoughts. Clarity is also our conviction on how do we use every single minute of the day. The most
abundant resource that God gifted to humans, is time. Because often, we don’t use it fully well that
we began to call this abundance of resource as the scarce resource. The clarity in our mind gives this
ability to use that resources well. The clarity also helps us to gain insight in differentiating what are
the obstacles & speedbreakers.
The second ‘C’ is capabilities. Essentially five elements build capabilities & combination of all of
them is what makes a difference in how you can use this resource of abundance. These are beliefs,
attitude, Knowledge, skills & behaviour. Naturally there is intertwined nature of these elements
which impact each other. When holistically viewed, it can create a big difference in making those
10,000 days as Passiondays.
Third & the last ‘C’ is about change. Imagine if in a lifespan, we all could make 10, 000 changes,
every day would have been so interesting. We have heard of the grandma’s phrase that an apple a
day keeps the doctor away. Similarly, I would say, a change a day keeps passion come our way. The
challenge is the challenge to status quo. Once we break that mental barrier, change becomes one of
the most glamorousthingtoget.
That is the journey of 3R’s…the Renewal, Renovation & Reconstruction. Let’s talk about those in the
nextissue.Have agreat festival times.